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white Boy:
funny thing.. i just read an essay about what i posted... basicly.. amercians like something complex, but not too complex.. casue soccer is too simple.. and americans love violence
Shallow:
It's because were brought up on other sports. I'm willing to bet it has a lot to do with the Revolutionary War. What I mean is it was probably a conscious effort to find sports that Britain does not play and make them a part of tradition. So USA made Football and Baseball, well somebody made then and USA adopted them. Britain has Crickett and Soccer and USA has Baseball and Football. Then USA kids were brought up with these sports being the most important. Another reason why Soccer became so poular world wide is because all the poor countries could pick it up with out spending much money. The average kid in the 60s Brazil couldn't afford to play baseball or american footballl, but a couple sea shells for a net (or tie a fish net between two trees) and a cabbage roll for a ball and you got Soccer.
Montana00:
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Yeah thats it. I started watching basketball instead of soccer, because of the revolutionary war.
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white Boy:
^LMAO!!
Jome:
--- Quote ---HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the games beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys School in England.
(...)
Walter Camp, the coach at Yale and a dissenter from the IFA over his desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American football. The IFAs rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at one hundred ten yards.(...)
--- End quote ---
So, pretty much, both Football, Rugby, and American Football originally comes from England.
Football was a sport before "American Football", so Football is one sport, and American Football another.
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